The Zionverse
Noura Tafeche
Performance
May 11
h. 20:00
Fabbrica del Vapore
Atelier Cisterne
In collaboration with The Void
The Zionverse explores the emergence of a digital ecosystem in which institutional neo propaganda and participatory production converge, transforming the genocide of the Palestinian population and colonial violence into viral, performative, and shareable content.
Through a narrative that adopts and distorts the language of platforms and immersive technologies, the work analyzes how settlers, soldiers, and Israeli media apparatuses, including official military communication departments, actively participate in constructing a parallel fictional reality founded on denial, spectacularization, and impunity.
From random video chat recordings, to archives of self incrimination produced by IOF soldiers themselves, to synthetic 3D aesthetics and campaigns orchestrated with influencers paid thousands of dollars, The Zionverse traces a continuity between post truth, genocide, and digital culture, identifying a condition: a hybrid space in which reality for Israel is no longer a necessary or desirable dimension, but whose system is increasingly difficult to sustain.
Info
45 mins
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Accessibility
Suitable for a public of all ages.
The event is accessible to people with reduced mobility.
Noura Tafeche is a visual artist, independent researcher, and onomaturge. Visual artist, onomaturge, and independent researcher whose practice spans archival methods, laboratory processes, video, installation, neologisms, and drawing. She graduated in New Technologies of Art (Media Art) at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, with a particular interest in net art; however, her most formative experience was the festival The Influencers in Barcelona.
Her research explores visual culture and its techno political implications, with a focus on digital militarism, online aesthetics, internet hyper niches, and non anglophone memetic cultures. She also investigates the use of synthetic images in contemporary institutional neo propaganda strategies.
She has exhibited, lectured, and conducted workshops at Aksioma (Ljubljana), Medialab Matadero (Madrid), transmediale (Berlin), Disruption Network Lab (Berlin), TheWrong Biennale (internet), Aarhus Kunsthal (Aarhus), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur), Impakt (Utrecht), Foto Colectania (Barcelona), Design Museum (Helsinki), Tainan Art Museum (Tainan), Tomorrow Maybe (Hong Kong), Triennale Milano (Milano), Pirelli Hangar Bicocca (Milano), Almanac Inn (Turin), Mattatoio (Rome), Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem), Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), and the European Union Representative Centre (Al Quds, Palestine).
THE VOID TV is a research project on tactical video and an audiovisual editorial platform for practice based research, hosted at the Institute of Network Cultures; it is composed of Tommaso Campagna, Giulia Timis, and Jordi Viader Guerrero.
